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The current price of Pepecoin is $0.0000848 with a 0.47% change in the last 24 hours.
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Pepecoin is an independent proof-of-work Layer 1 blockchain with the ticker PEP. It is a fork of Dogecoin Core, which itself descends from Litecoin and Bitcoin, and it uses the Scrypt hashing algorithm. There are no smart contracts, no token standard, no liquidity pool, and no contract owner, because there is no contract at all: PEP is a native coin on its own chain, mined by miners and validated by nodes running Pepecoin Core.
This page describes that chain and only that chain. Pepecoin (PEP) is not the widely traded Ethereum memecoin PEPE, and it is not any ERC-20 or BEP-20 token using a frog image. Those are separate assets on separate networks. The identifying facts for this one are its own chain parameters: addresses begin with the letter P, the peer-to-peer port is 33874, and the merged-mining chain ID is 63.
Official sources:
The project does not name a founder. The Pepecoin Core README states only that Pepecoin was created by one of the original Dogecoin community members from 2013, and no verifiable identity is published. Readers should treat the founding team as anonymous.
What can be dated precisely comes from the code and the release history. The Pepecoin Core repository was created on August 26, 2023. The mainnet genesis block carries a timestamp of January 23, 2024, and Pepecoin Core 1.0.0 was published on January 30, 2024, followed by 1.0.1 in May 2024 and 1.1.0 in December 2024. A Pepecoin Foundation now exists at pepecoin.org to support education and community work around the chain.
There is no whitepaper. The project does not publish one, and the source code is the specification.
Scrypt proof of work with one minute blocks The chain targets a sixty second block interval. Difficulty retargeting switches to a DigiShield-style algorithm from block 1,000, which smooths the large swings small Scrypt chains otherwise suffer when rented hashrate arrives and leaves.
Merged mining from block 42,000 Auxiliary proof of work activates at block 42,000 with chain ID 63, and legacy non-auxiliary blocks stop being accepted from that height. In practice this means Pepecoin is secured by miners already hashing Litecoin and Dogecoin, who submit the same work to Pepecoin at no extra energy cost.
A fixed emission curve, then perpetual tail issuance The subsidy function in the source uses simplified rewards from genesis: 500,000 PEP per block, halving every 100,000 blocks, for the first six halving intervals. From block 600,000 onward the subsidy becomes a constant 10,000 PEP per block, forever.
That schedule has a consequence worth stating plainly, because it is often described incorrectly. Pepecoin has no maximum supply. The six halving intervals pay 500,000, then 250,000, 125,000, 62,500, 31,250, and 15,625 PEP per block, across 100,000 blocks each, which issues 98,437,500,000 PEP by block 600,000. Every block after that adds another 10,000 PEP with no terminal point. The MAX_MONEY constant of 10,000,000,000 coins found in the source is a per-transaction sanity bound inherited from the Bitcoin codebase, not a supply ceiling, and the chain's issued coin count has already passed it.
The arithmetic checks out against the live chain. A public explorer read on September 11, 2026 reported the chain at block 1,204,871 with a coin count of 104,486,220,000 PEP, which is exactly what the schedule predicts at that height. The emission curve in the code is the emission curve running in production.
The unusual thing about Pepecoin is that a meme coin chose the harder path. Almost every frog-branded asset launched since 2023 is a token on someone else's chain, where a deployer holds keys, a liquidity pool can be pulled, and a contract can blacklist an address. Pepecoin has none of those surfaces because it has no contract, and its security comes from the same Scrypt hashrate that protects Litecoin and Dogecoin. The code is also genuinely maintained: the public repository has commits through September 2026, which is not typical for meme-adjacent projects two years past launch.
This is the comparison most readers actually need.
Against Dogecoin and Litecoin specifically, Pepecoin is much younger and much smaller, shares their hashing algorithm, and is secured as a merged-mining passenger on their hashrate rather than by an independent miner base.
Security is proof of work. Because auxiliary proof of work is required from block 42,000 onward, the effective defense against a reorganization is the share of Litecoin and Dogecoin Scrypt hashrate that also submits work to Pepecoin. That is a large pool of hardware and a real advantage over a small chain mining alone, but it is also a dependency: those miners can stop pointing merged work at Pepecoin at any time without changing their own operations.
Pepecoin is a clean example of the structural difference between a coin and a token. Its rules are in public source code, its emission is arithmetic rather than announcement, and the numbers the live chain reports match what the code says they should. Whatever one thinks of meme branding, it is a compact demonstration of why "layer 1 versus ERC-20" is a real distinction rather than marketing language.
PEP is available on a number of centralized exchanges, and it can also be obtained by mining, since merged mining lets existing Scrypt miners produce PEP without additional hardware or energy.
Support for PEP is concentrated in mid-sized global venues rather than the largest regulated exchanges, and listings change. Before transferring, confirm that deposits and withdrawals are open on the Pepecoin network specifically and that the deposit address begins with P. An address that does not is for a different asset.
Never send PEP to an Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, or Solana address. Those networks cannot receive it and the funds are unrecoverable.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Pepecoin is $0.0000848 with a 0.47% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $15,009.48 representing a 23.59% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Pepecoin is $8,706,210, ranking #687 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Pepecoin is $8,845,374, calculated assuming the total supply of 104,308,660,000 PEP is in circulation.
Circulating: 102,667,570,000. Total: 104,308,660,000. Max: N/A.
In the last 24 hours, Pepecoin traded between a low of $0.0000819 and a high of $0.0000889.
PEP/USDTTether USDT0.0000848 USDT
